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TuneWeaver - Posted - 09/08/2020: 13:15:53
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Originally posted by sbhikes2I've been taking lessons and my teacher had me get Scales for Young Violinists. It's difficult to read, in my opinion, but she shows me what to do. There was one arpeggio she had me do and she tried to use it to show tricks for how to have good intonation. For one thing, sometimes fingers will have a relative position side-by-side, so keep your fingers down and make sure they are the same amount close together both times, and another thing she said to do was to play all the G notes (in a G arpeggio) loud and the others quiet and make sure they all sound the same, not different. Then do the same with all the Bs. I don't know if that will help you or not but it might.
Diane, it is SO exciting that you seem to be taking your instruction to heart... I know you were discouraged for a while.. and probably will be again, but if you keep this up, you are going to be a fiddler "TO BE RECKONED WITH." 
sbhikes2 - Posted - 09/08/2020: 17:35:50
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Originally posted by TuneWeaverquote:
Originally posted by sbhikes2I've been taking lessons and my teacher had me get Scales for Young Violinists. It's difficult to read, in my opinion, but she shows me what to do. There was one arpeggio she had me do and she tried to use it to show tricks for how to have good intonation. For one thing, sometimes fingers will have a relative position side-by-side, so keep your fingers down and make sure they are the same amount close together both times, and another thing she said to do was to play all the G notes (in a G arpeggio) loud and the others quiet and make sure they all sound the same, not different. Then do the same with all the Bs. I don't know if that will help you or not but it might.
Diane, it is SO exciting that you seem to be taking your instruction to heart... I know you were discouraged for a while.. and probably will be again, but if you keep this up, you are going to be a fiddler "TO BE RECKONED WITH."
I believe that there are things about VIOLIN instruction that are important for fiddling. The one I know of are:
There's probably more than that but being essentially un-instructed, I don't know what they are yet. With anything, it is easier to break rules you understand (bow hold?) than it is to do them wrong and then try to justify your rule-breaking even after your rule-breaking fails to serve you well. (That's me.)
